According to WKTLA in California, a group of fishermen may have broken a world record with a huge shark caught off the coast of Huntington Beach. A fisherman named Jason Johnston, from Mesquite, Texas, chartered a boat out of Huntington Beach on Monday. His group hooked a massive shortfin mako shark about 15 miles offshore. The shark was 11 feet long, 8 feet in girth and more than 1,300 pounds, according to the fishermen’s estimates.
It took more than two hours and a quarter-mile of line to reel in the shark, according to Johnston.“It’s unreal," said Johnson. "This thing is definitely a killing machine. Any wrong step and I could have went out of the boat and to the bottom of the ocean.”
The shark has been taken to a weigh yard in Gardena to be certified by a weigh master. It was expected to be donated to a research organization for study. As they waited for news on their possible world record, the fishermen planned to head out again on Tuesday for another adventure.